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Gordon- I think what you are doing is fabulous, and I really appreciate how much effort you are putting into this terrific product, and am excited about what you have in the pipeline! Your personal effort shows through in the number of projects for the Espruino on the site. And your out of the box thinking is great. Plus-I was really glad to see you not over charging customers with add on "modules" at $25 a pop as I have seen from the Stamp to one of your competitors. Keep up the great work!
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I think as usual, @DrAzzy's totally summed it up :)
I provide firmware images for other boards, but they're not tested or documented to anywhere near the same extent as the Espruino board. I also tend to prioritise bugs that affect people who have bought Espruino boards, and I put more effort into cramming software in too. On other boards, if some functionality doesn't fit in then I tend to just leave it out.
Espruino could be ported to other devices, but as @DrAzzy says it's difficult because the peripherals are accessed in different ways. Unfortunately because my salary is paid from Espruino board sales it's not really in my best interests to port it to new platforms, especially if they may eat into Espruino board sales.
The ST Nucleo/Discovery boards (which are a lot cheaper) are manufactured in huge quantities and sold basically at cost by ST as a way to encourage people to use their chips. The licence actually forbids their use in any commercial products. It's just not possible for me to compete with them for price, while also being able to support my work.
It's interesting that you came from Basic Stamp - that was really one of my motivations for Espruino... trying to provide an interpreted language in a micro, but doing it with something a bit more modern.